In April 2006 Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By won the inaugural Australian Music Prize (AMP) for the Drones. Also in contention were works by Wolfmother , the Go-Betweens , TZU , the Devastations , the Mess Hall , Tex, Don & Charlie and Ben Lee . Liddiard explained how they could spend the $25,000 prize money, “We played in Sydney last week and both of our guitars totally died. The guts fell out of mine and Rui’s neck snapped off. We’ve done over 100 shows in the last four months and we have some nasty debts. We have another world tour starting in May. That’s after we do two tours of Australia. We can’t get jobs because we tour so much. Food is a luxury item right now.” The Drones continued to tour throughout the year, including a support slot on You Am I ‘s Australian tour in July.
Won inaugural Australian Music Prize
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